Mona Awad Reihenfolge der Bücher

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty.Can she escape her mother's fate and find a connection that is more than skin deep?For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror-and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, ROUGE explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry-as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, ROUGE holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

Die Autorin Awad wird für ihre kreative und einfallsreiche Schreibweise gelobt, die sie zu einer der herausragendsten Stimmen der zeitgenössischen Literatur macht. Ihre Werke zeichnen sich durch einzigartige Perspektiven und tiefgründige Themen aus, die Leser fesseln und zum Nachdenken anregen. Die Kombination aus innovativen Erzähltechniken und eindringlichen Charakteren hebt ihre Literatur hervor und lässt sie in der heutigen Literaturszene herausstechen.

Miranda Fitch's life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she's on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. That's when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda's past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what's coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that's kept her from the spotlight is made known. With prose Margaret Atwood has described as "no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius," Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All's Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.[Bokinfo]

In diesem Werk von Margaret Atwood wird die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Tier auf eine innovative Weise beleuchtet. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich durch die Perspektive eines charmanten und einfallsreichen Kaninchens, das in einer Welt voller Herausforderungen und menschlicher Absurditäten seinen Platz sucht. Mit scharfer Beobachtungsgabe und einem Hauch von Humor thematisiert Atwood die Komplexität von Identität und die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit. Die Erzählung regt zum Nachdenken über die Natur des Lebens und die Verbindung zwischen allen Lebewesen an.

Follows Lizzie, a young woman growing up in Mississauga, as she fights her way from fat to thin, but who still, even as a married adult woman, sees herself as a fat girl.